The emerging venue battle in El Paso/Kinder Morgan

Larry Ribstein —  22 October 2011

T-R’s Alison Frankel writes (HT Pileggi) about dueling suits in Texas and Delaware challenging the El Paso/Kinder Morgan merger: Three class actions in Texas state court and two class actions and a shareholder derivative suit in Delaware Chancery.

It looks like this merger may bring to a head the “escape from Delaware” phenomenon I discussed a year ago.

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